Meanwhile, Captain Lou Albano was well-known was for being drunk during some of his performances, a bad habit that stretched back to the 1970s when Vince McMahon’s father, Vince, Sr., was in charge of the then-WWWF.

And the demons got particularly tragic for “Quick Draw” Rick McGraw, who was a fiery, upper-tier prelim wrestler who died in 1985 of a heart attack, after years of alleged drug abuse. He was only 31.

Just like any entertainment or sports genre, there are guys and gals who will party too hard, and there are people who mess up and still get chance after chance because they are stars. But the one thing pro wrestling doesn’t need right now is another dead competitor.